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| Criterion | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree | ![]() UX Research Affinity Diagramming |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45–90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-6 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Theme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause |
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